https://youtu.be/UetJAFogqE4?t=55 In the beautiful 1965 movie The Sound of Music, Maria (Julie Andrews) and Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) sing "Something Good," in which they say they must have done something good sometime during their childhood or youth, because they have found each other. What interests me in this song, however, is not their love … Continue reading Nothing Comes from Nothing
Sickness
I finally got COVID-19 and lost four full workdays due to my severe symptoms. In fact, it was not just myself. Paul first got it somewhere, and my wife and I got it from him. I was mistaken because I simply assumed it to be like a cold or something like it. To some, yes, … Continue reading Sickness
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, 2001 [1866]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-81) was going through a very difficult time when he penned Crime and Punishment in 1864. His first wife had died of tuberculosis and so had his brother Mikhail. Dead broke, and being chased by the collectors, he traveled (or escaped) in Europe, where he wrote Crime and Punishment, which was published in … Continue reading Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, 2001 [1866]
The One True Messiah: Jesus
Allow me to ask you two seemingly unrelated questions: Have you ever seen the face of a “messiah”?; have you ever seen something that combines all three, i.e., Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity? You can answer “yes” to both if you’ve seen the photo I attached above. When I was driving by a mosque yesterday, I … Continue reading The One True Messiah: Jesus
Shinzo Abe’s Death
Yesterday was a sad day. The sixty-seven-year-old former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faced a cruelly sudden death at the prime of his life; he was assassinated during his campaign speech yesterday (July 8, 2022). No one in the world but the forty-one-year-old assassin knew that such a violent death would soon consume one of … Continue reading Shinzo Abe’s Death